One sees there was a store opening in Aspen (Prada) where everyone was extremely rich and famous. The only Chicago name is Kent Crown, the son of Lester and Renee, whom we met many times over the years covering the black tie circuit in Chiago, Illinois. Renee especially very gracious though one didn't dare mention the "other" Crowns, viz., Gary, Indiana body builder Beverly and Besotted Barry who were ubiquitous and deliciously outre.

I once interiewed Thomas Klutznick about the Aspen Ski Company his family then owned and he was, for some reason, absolutely furious at the implication it wasn't a smashing immediate success; his daughter called several times to "warn me" about ever writing about them again. So there! For ten years I have not.